Software Quality Assurance professional with many years of experience in test automation with Selenium WebDriver and Java, Web Services testing using industry-leading tools and back-end testing of relational databases. Professional Background Summary Over 6 years of experience in Information Technology with specialization in Software Quality Assurance. Proficient in Automation and Manual Testing of Web-based applications and Web Services with standard API testing tools (Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Postman, SoapUI, RESTAssured). Thorough knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), Bug Life Cycle, Waterfall methodology and Agile Scrum environment. Proficient with Data Driven, Keyword Driven Test Automation frameworks and Page Object Model (POM). Experienced in managing CI/CD pipelines of automation frameworks with Jenkins and GitHub. Extensive hands-on experience using Apache Maven as the build tool for software project development. Excellent knowledge of defect tracking and management with JIRA and test case development with Zephyr. Experienced in Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (Cucumber BDD). Expertise in Java Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts: Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism. Strong knowledge of Collection framework and Exception handling. Highly skilled at developing Selenium WebDriver test scripts using Java in Eclipse IDE and IntelliJ IDEA. Hands-on experience with mobile automation testing tools such as Appium with Android Studio. Experience with cloud-hosted cross browser web and mobile application automated testing platforms (BrowserStack, Sauce Labs). Expertise in analyzing Business and Functional Requirements Specifications for comprehensive test strategy development, test planning, test designing and test execution. Experienced in performing Functional Testing, Unit Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Exploratory Testing, GUI Testing, API Testing and Backend Testing. Experience with distributed relational databases at the enterprise level (Oracle RDBMS, MySQL). Skilled at using HP ALM (QC) as a test and defect management tool. Experienced in automation testing using Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Grid, Selenium IDE, TestNG and JUnit. Experienced in automated and manual testing of SOAP and RESTful Web Services using Postman and ReadyAPI (SoapUI).